1954 first edition in excellent condition with slight wear. No markings. Likely never read. DJ is in good shape with some tears that have been repaired with acid free archival tissue. Ships in a box.
ALONE TO EVEREST
By EARL DENMAN
The story of some of Earl Denman's mountaineering exploits in Africa, culminating in his forbidden journey in 1947 through Tibet to Everest with Tenzing, is here told for the first time. It is a remarkable story of a remarkable man. Among many present-day accounts of hardship and adventure it stands out as the testi- mony of a man for whom modern civilization and modern equipment mean little, and who is happiest, as he says, "walking barefoot on warm grass or wet rocks; in probing deep into cool, quiet forests; in days of healthy activity and evenings of restfulness spent beside a warming fire." Denman's achievement in the Belgian Congo-where with only local guides as companions he became the first white man to climb all eight of the high and remote Virunga Mountains made him realize that he would never rest until he had made a similar expedition to the highest mountain in the world. At the time $700 was all he had in the world; his equipment was of the simplest and cheapest. His journey by sea and land to Darjeeling was made under great difficulties. His meeting with Karma Paul, who introduced him to Tenzing and his friend Ang Dowa, was entirely fortuitous; he was expressly forbidden to enter Tibet (Nepal at that time was entirely closed to the Western world). Yet with all these handicaps he and the two Sherpas set off alone from Darjeeling. made their way, with many mishaps, through Sikkim and Tibet to the Rongbuk monastery, and thence to Everest itself. Appalling weather conditions finally drove them back, but not be
fore they had attained a height of 23,500 feet. Everest has now been climbed, and no doubt will be climbed again. But Denman's feat, though superficially unsuccessful, remains a tri umph against fantastic odds. It is not surprising perhaps that Everest itself eluded him. It is considerably more than surprising that he travelled so far and achieved so much on so little.